Please join me on my journey as a beginning urban homesteader in Oregon. I love cooking from scratch, food preservation, soap making, shopping at local farmers markets, gardening and learning new skills. I believe we are in the next Great Depression and we will all need to re-learn homesteading skills and apply them to life in the 21st Century in order to make it to the 22nd Century! Let us begin.

Thursday, January 30, 2014

Last Summer's Success

Here's some of the successful things my son and I grew last summer! All photos here are mine. I grew several types of tomatoes, several types of garlic, shallots, lemon cucumbers, slicing cucumbers, Swiss chard, blackberries and LaRatte fingerling potatoes. We had oodles and oodles of tomatoes, but the pickling cucumbers failed which meant no dill pickle spears (I made hamburger dills instead with slicers). When we lived a few summers ago in Pennsylvania with friends who farm, my friend Gene made fermented pickles and my goal is to make pickles as good as his! I would also like some day to be a garlic farmer and sell to local restaurants :)

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About Me

I am a single mom raising a special needs child while working and trying to figure out life. Oh, and I worked on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine and Star Trek: First Contact once upon a time (and some other shows and movies). I am a preschool teacher, voracious reader, mosaic artist, urban homesteader, a poet and a thinker. I am an unapologetic do-gooder with delusions of reality; a kitchen witch who raises children and vegetables and who wants to save the world. All of these words describe everything and nothing about me. I am a catalyst. Boldly go.